The authors of a recent study published in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases studied “the longitudinal associations between baseline knee pain, knee cartilage volume and cartilage defects in older adults.” The authors measured the total remaining knee cartilage of 356 community dwelling older adults with knee osteoarthritis over a 3 year period. The authors found that patients with high knee cartilage volume were less likely to report significant pain symptoms.
